Coin Slot Magazine - #064 - 1980 - June [International Arcade Museum]
Dear Allan,
So why such a low number for the Watline BLUE SEAL
JACKPOT? Fd like to be smart and come up with a logical
answer, but I can't. By 1920 the Watling serials were already in
the 24,000 range, and here you have a machine from 1920 that
was normally in the 35,000 range to the 45,0000 range.
Til give a guess, but it's wild speculation. Let's suppose, just
for the hell of it, that Watling cheated, and didn't really make
25,000 Bell machines by 1920 but only pretended to do so to
make it look like Watling and Mills were neck and neck. And
What it is is a modification of the Mills MYSTERY (the 2-
jackpot "Blue Front") by the Baker Novelty Company in
Chicago madefor super high security locations. The two barred
jackpots show that, and then there's the National "Slug
Rejector" head instead of the escalator.
We don't know what the name of this machine is, but we can
precisely date it. National, a Chicago outfit, made the slug
rejector head, but it is really big and didn'tfit standardslots. So,
then, in 1929, got honest for a week or so to make 22,815? Wild
Jennings made a SLUG REJECTOR SILVER CHIEF without
the escalator in November 1939. Pace took the COMET
DELUXE and dropped the circulator escalator and made the
guess! But . . .
Editor
ROCKET. We never knew what the Mills version was or even if
they made one. But old operators remember this Baker revamp,
Dear Coin Slot,
and now you've just found it, dated late 1939 and probably
This is the strangest Mills "Castle Front" I've ever seen. What
is it?
called the Baker SLUG REJECTOR BELL f Copper Front").
That's enough to start with, anyway.
Allan Pall,
River Forest, IL
Editor
Dear Sirs:
Am trying to locate an inexpensive glass for an Evans
Bangtail Winter Book console. Broke my during restoration, so
if you can help I woul be most grateful.
Thanking you in advance.
Bill Healey
Okay, Bill;
The best we can do is run your letter in our Letters To The
Editor and hope that someone can help. Has anyone got an
Evans BANGTAIL WINTER BOOK glass for Bill Healey?
Contact him direct. And, ifall elsefails, Bill, see Coin Slot Guide
No. 10 for the Evans BANGTAILS and GOLLOPING
DOMINOS. It reproduces the glass art in line drawings and it'st
a start toward a reproduction if you have to go that route.
Editor
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